Equipping Leaders To Multiply
I love my job! Everyday I get to hangout with bold, passionate young men who are following God’s calling to start new churches to reach their communities for Christ. Accompanying this calling is a great sense of fear and uncertainty. Rightfully so, they’re putting a lot on the line, taking a risk not knowing if people will follow, if the funds will be there or if they have the “leadership stuff” to make it work. Every…Continue Reading
Leaders are typically hard on themselves. We tend to look at our performance and immediately begin to ask ourselves what we did wrong. We’re rarely satisfied and have high self-expectations. This can be positive because it drives us toward constant improvement. But it can also be negative because it can decrease our confidence or cause us to focus on improving things we’ll never be good at (which is a waste of our developmental energies). So…Continue Reading
Not many people are satisfied with the level of leadership development taking place in their organization. Yet few take serious strides to really do anything about it. Leadership development requires focus and discipline. Here are 7 questions to stir your thinking at the beginning of the week. Am I rewarding and celebrating the reproduction of leaders? Am I challenging older leaders in our organization to reproduce themselves? Am I making leadership development and mentoring simple…Continue Reading
Execution seems to be a persistent problem that plagues many leaders. My constant frustration with this led me to re-read Gary Harpst, Six Disciplines of Execution this month. Harpst provides some helpful charts and a detailed strategic process for execution that’s worth the price of the book alone. Here are a few of my highlights from the book (sorry, doesn’t include the cool charts!) Leaders who build organizations with the ability to balance strong strategy…Continue Reading
Here are a few of the things I’ve been learning lately… The most relevant ideas we can discover are typically born out of listening to the need of the customer. Leaders If you need an inspirational idea, listen for need. Interest is not the same as commitment. Many people are interested in what we lead but not everyone is readily committed to join the cause. Enthusiasm alone does not a movement make Mission is born…Continue Reading